Edison Male Quartet<br /><br />Edison Quartet sings a medly of four tunes popular over a century ago.<br /><br />“Good Old Songs” <br /><br />Edison Gold Moulded Record 9384 <br /><br />1906<br /><br />1) "Twinkling stars are laughing love" (Ordway) John P. Ordway song<br /><br />Twinkling stars are laughing, love,<br />Laughing on you and me.<br />While your bright eyes look in mine,<br />Peeping stars they seem to be;<br />Troubles come and go, love,<br />Brightest scenes must leave our sight,<br />But the star of hope, love,<br />Shines with radiant beams to-night.<br /><br />Twinkling stars are laughing, love,<br />Laughing on you and me,<br />While your bright eyes look in mine,<br />Peeping stars they seem to be.<br /><br />2) "When I saw sweet Nellie home" (Fletcher)<br /><br />In the sky the bright stars glittered<br />On the bank the pale moon shone<br />And ‘twas from aunt Dinah’s quilting party<br />I was seeing Nellie home<br /><br />_____________<br />When I Saw Sweet Nelly Home.<br /><br />In the sky the bright stars glittered, on the grass the moonlight fell,<br />Unshed the sound of daylight's bustle, closed the pink-eyed pimpernel!;<br />As down the moss-grown woodpath, where the cattle love to roam.<br />From Aunt Dinah's quilting party I was seeing Nelly home.<br /><br />When I saw sweet Nelly home, when I saw sweet Nelly home;<br />How I bless the August evening when I saw sweet Nelly home.<br /><br />Jetty ringlets softly flattered o'er her brow as white as snow.<br />And her cheek, the crimson sunset, scarcely had a warmer glow;<br />'Mid her parted lips' Vermillion, white teeth flashed like ocean foam;<br />All I marked with pulses throbbing, as I saw sweet Nelly home.<br /><br />When the Autumn tinged the greenwood, turning all the leaves to gold,<br />In the lawn by alders shaded, I my love to Nelly told;<br />As we stood together, gazing on the star-bespangled dome,<br />How I blessed the August evening when I saw sweet Nelly home.<br /><br />White hairs mingle with my tresses, furrows steal upon my brow,<br />nr a love-smile cheers and blesses life's declining moments now.<br />Matron in a snowy 'kerchief, closer to my bosom come.<br />Tell me, dost thou still remember when I saw sweet Nellie home.<br /><br />_____________<br /><br /><br />3) "Would I were with thee" (Bossetti)<br /><br /><br />4) "There's music in the air" (Root)<br /><br />There's music in the air<br />When the infant morn is nigh<br />And faint its blush is seen<br />On the bright and laughing sky.<br />Many a harp's extatic sound<br />With it's thrill of joy profound<br />While we list enchanted there<br />To the music in the air.<br /><br /><br />Edison Male Quartet<br /><br />1) "Twinkling stars are laughing love" (Ordway) John P. Ordway song<br /><br />2) "When I saw sweet Nellie home" (Fletcher)<br /><br />3) "Would I were with thee" (Bossetti)<br /><br />4) "There's music in the air" (Root)<br /><br /><br />“Good Old Songs” When I saw sweet Nellie home & Twinkling stars are laughing love BARBERSHOP QUARTET
